Steffi, Serena, Martina - that's how the tennis experts voted
The tennis experts have spoken. Steffi Graf is ahead of Serena Williams and Martina Navratilova in the female legends of the Open Era. We have the breakdown and the exact result of the vote for you again.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Dec 20, 2020, 02:56 pm
A total of 29 experts took part in the survey - and nominated a sequence from one to eight. There were eight points for the top position, then seven, etc. So a maximum of 232 points would have been possible. The end result looks like this:
| rank | Player | Points | First places |
| 1 | Stefanie Graf (GER) | 203 | 18th |
| 2 | Serena Williams (USA) | 187 | 8th |
| 3 | Martina Navratilova (CZE / USA) | 162 | 2 |
| 4th | Chris Evert (USA) | 104 | 0 |
| 5 | Billie-Jean King (USA) | 85 | 1 |
| 6th | Monica Seles (SRB / USA) | 82 | 0 |
| 7th | Martina Hingis (SUI) | 43 | 0 |
| 8th | Venus Williams (USA) | 38 | 0 |
| 9 | Maria Sharapova (RUS) | 20th | 0 |
| 10 | Margaret Court (AUS) | 19th | 0 |
| 11 | Justine Henin (BEL) | 11 | 0 |
| 12th | Gabriela Sabatini (ARG) | 9 | 0 |
| 13th | Kim Clijsters (BEL) | 8th | 0 |
| 14th | Anna Kournikova (RUS) | 5 | 0 |
| 15th | Lindsay Davenport (USA) | 2 | 0 |
| 15th | Evonne Goolagong (AUS) | 2 | 0 |
| 17th | Jennifer Capriati (USA) | 1 | 0 |
Christian Schwell from the clay court gods argues as follows: "Graf, because she athletically - after Navratilova took the first steps in this direction - raised women's tennis to a whole new level. And because her year 1988 with the Golden Slam despite that too dominant players has remained unique after her. " Florian Regelmann (spox.com) can agree with this verdict: "No one will ever be as dominant as Steffi again. The aura of" This is guaranteed to be a 6-0, 6-0 "makes her the greatest legend."
Florian Goosmann (tennisnet) sees Serena Williams in front: "Because of her sporting success on the one hand, and on the other hand" unfortunately "also thanks to her sometimes far too extreme external image." Paul Hauser (Sky) agrees: "She has taken tennis to a whole new level for women and the entire sport. She is a pioneer in the fight against racism and for equality."
Here are the top 5 experts ...
| 1st place | place 2 | place 3 | 4th place | 5th place | |
| Barbara Rittner (ex-WTA professional) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | Court | Evert |
| Michael Kohlmann (ex-ATP professional) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | Evert | Seles |
| Barbara Schett (ex-WTA professional) | Serena | Venus | Count | Seles | Hingis |
| Jürgen Melzer (ATP professional) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | Evert | Venus |
| Christopher Kas (ex-ATP professional) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | King | Seles |
| Alexander Peya (ATP professional) | Serena | Count | King | Navratilova | Evert |
| Lars Uebel (Ex-ATP Coach) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | King | Evert |
| Tobias Summerer (Ex-ATP Coach) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | Evert | Venus |
| Jan de Witt (ATP coach) | Count | Serena | Clijsters | ||
| Doris Henkel (FAZ) | Serena | Count | Navratilova | Seles | Sharapova |
| Andrej Antic (tennisMAGAZIN) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | Evert | Court |
| Christian Barschel (tennisMAGAZIN) | Navratilova | Count | Serena | Evert | Sharapova |
| Gerald Kleffmann (SZ) | Count | Navratilova | Evert | Serena | Venus |
| Marcel Meinert (Sky) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | Evert | King |
| Stefan Hempel (Sky) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | Evert | Seles |
| Moritz Lang (Sky) | Count | King | Navratilova | Serena | Henin |
| Paul Houses (Sky) | Serena | Count | Navratilova | Evert | King |
| Jörg Allmeroth (tennisnet) | King | Navratilova | Serena | Count | Evert |
| Florian Regelmann (spox.com) | Count | Evert | Sabatini | Seles | Hingis |
| Christian Schwell (clay court gods) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | King | Seles |
| Oliver Faßnacht (Eurosport) | Navratilova | Serena | Count | King | Evert |
| Markus Theil (Eurosport) | Count | King | Navratilova | Evert | Lenglen |
| Alexander Tagger (Little Newspaper) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | Seles | Evert |
| Harald Ottawa (courier) | Serena | Count | Navratilova | Seles | Hingis |
| Sebastian Kayser (PICTURE) | Count | Navratilova | Evert | Serena | Sharapova |
| Florian Goosmann (tennisnet) | Serena | Navratilova | Evert | Kournikova | Count |
| Michael Rothschädl (tennisnet) | Serena | Count | King | Navratilova | Hingis |
| Nikolaus Fink (tennisnet) | Count | Serena | Navratilova | Evert | Court |
| Jens Huiber (sportradio360) | Serena | Navratilova | Count | King | Seles |